Good morning! Monday’s come back around again. Next Monday is Memorial Day 🇺🇸. Rain showers and clouds and 74 degrees waiting for the bus at the Valero. ☔ There is a south-southwest breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 63 degrees. I think it’s the first time we’ve had dew points in the sixties this year. Definitely damp in my apartment, the humidity sensor says it’s closer to a dew point of 65 inside with a humidity of 80%. I’m glad I wired that up in my VMS display. The skies will clear around noontime.

So it’s the work week before the holiday weekend, heading downtown. 🚍 I caught the later bus downtown this morning as I had trouble getting going on this rainy morning in my truck cap but so be it. It wasn’t a bad night sleeping — some heavy rain during the night and some flashes of lighting — but in general a nice night. My parents did make a nice breakfast. 🍳 It was a dark and rainy morning then when I got home and the floors were wet from the humidity but at least my VMS display is working well since I added that transistor to refresh the display and clear out any invalid data. The trick with the transistor was to put the display into sleep mode, cut power, and then wake it up from sleep mode once power was restored — sticking in a 10 millisecond delay — to get a full refresh from any errors.

Today will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds. Partly sunny ☀, with a high of 83 degrees at 2pm. 12 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around July 13th. Too bad I have to work and with everything being so wet this morning it feels like a swamp. Maximum dew point of 64 at 10am. Hopefully things will dry up later today. Southwest wind 9 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 75 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 1962.

The sun will set at 8:16 pm with dusk around 8:49 pm, which is one minute later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly clear skies – wait for it – with a chance of thunderstorms 🌧 and temperatures around 67 degrees. In case you mud was getting dehydrated says the internet meme. The good news is that cool dry air will be pushing into so things will hopefully be nice. The dew point will be 53 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 13 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 48 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 52 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of showers before 10pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 50 degrees at 5am. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 24th. Northwest wind 11 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 47 degrees. The record low of 32 occurred back in 1949.

I’m going to change the code on my VMS display in my bedroom to take the average of the temperature from the clock chip and the DHT 11 sensor. It seems like the clock chip rides a few degrees too high and the humidity DHT 11 runs too low compared to the mercury thermometer on my wall. I think it’s heat from the circuits 💫 that’s causing the too high readings. I also have an external temperature probe that I want to wire up outside, to get an outside temperature reading, and also add code to reset the day’s recorded high and low temperature, at midnight each night.

I have many options for the long weekend ⛺ and I’ve been leaning against more going up to the East Branch because I was just up there. I might back country tent 🎪 camp locally if I don’t want to deal with so many black flies 🐜 or maybe go back up to Vermont where I’ve been spending a lot of holiday weekends lately. The problem with VEE-mont is I don’t have a fishing license for there but the Grout Pond swimming beach is nice. Not sure if it’s going to be that warm out this weekend but I would like to camp somewhere I have cellphone 📱 reception, lots of sun for solar and maybe some swimming 🏊 and fishing 🎣 opportunities.

As previously noted, next Monday is Memorial Day 🇺🇸 when the sun will be setting at 8:22 pm with dusk at 8:56 pm. On that day in 2018, we had rain showers, partly sunny and temperatures between 68 and 54 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 73 degrees. We hit a record high of 94 back in 1914.

Good evening! Partly clear and 62 degrees Calm wind.🎑 The dew point is 41 degrees. A fairly nice spring evening but the air is a bit pungent with manure with the farm down the road spreading. 💩Been tough on anyone that does field work this spring. It’s just been so wet, in most of the country. 💦 Rain again om Friday and probably Sunday too. Go figure.

I was quite concerned about delays getting home with the Corporation Challenge Run. 🏃 It was a beautiful day for the run for sure, but often it messed up the buses a lot. But this year, the express bus was only about 10 or 15 minutes late, and I was home by six, so not a big deal.🚌 Traffic on the outbound was lighter then expected, and all and it, it’s a very nice evening.

But tonight is nice. 👍 Sitting out back with the almost full moon. I hooked up the laser firefly light show out back. Kind of pretty watching the flicker on the ground although the real thing is even better. 🐝 Been such a cold spring that I bet the real fireflies will be late this year. I hear deer in the woods, a bird chirping in the distance and lots of motor vehicles. 🏁 I live on the outskirts of the city but still close enough for transit.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 49 degrees at 5am. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 21st. Calm wind becoming southeast around 5 mph after midnight. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 59 degrees. The record low of 30 occurred back in 1959.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous Moon 🌔 with 99% illuminated. The moon will set at 5:05 am. The 🌕 will be tomorrow with a chance of showers. The sun will rise at 5:31 am with the first light at 4:58 am, which is 59 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 9 hours and 18 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes over last night.

Tomorrow will have showers likely, mainly between 10am and 3pm. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 72 degrees at 5pm. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 23rd. Maximum dew point of 58 at 4pm. South wind 6 to 11 mph becoming light and variable. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. Well, it was a nice break in the rain for a change. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 80 degrees. The record high of 92 was set in 2017.

The Pine Bush display was much more ready to go then I expected this year. 🌲I did send some handouts to be made up at the copy shop. Hopefully I made up enough, it’s kind of expensive to do the copying even on lightweight paper. At least its all ordered and I can pick it up tomorrow. 📑 Then it’s the long day at the Lupine Festival but hopefully I’ll have some help. I just hate to spend money 💵 on something that’s going to be thrown away.

So much for that super nice weekend. 😕 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 67. Northwest wind around 8 mph. Maximum dew point of 46 at 7pm. Sunday, a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 79. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Maximum dew point of 64 at 4pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 70 degrees.

After the Lupine Festival I’ll probably go for a walk and head home. 🚶 If Sunday doesn’t look good I’ll just stay in town, run to the store then out to my parents house. Save gas for next weekend. ⛽ Not that I have super big plans for Memorial Day Weekend, at best it’s back up to the East Branch to spend a few days swatting black flies. 🐜

Definitely looking forward to warmer weather and nights in the wilderness. ⛺ I’ve already gotten two weekends in this year but there are more to come. This might be my second to last year of doing these trips if I decide to go car less in 2021, but I want to wait and see what tomorrow brings. I like traveling but I hate the scams, awful people on the automobile industry. I could save so much money by going car lees for a few years and reduce my carbon footprint 👣 enormously.

In four weeks on June 13 the sun will be setting at 8:34 pm,🌄 which is 22 minutes and 6 seconds later then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had rain and temperatures between 75 and 60 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 77 and 56 degrees. The record high of 94 degrees was set back in 1892.

I still can’t believe what an idiot Trump 🎺 is with his tarrifs. In the mid term the presidents actions are eventually going to be be so bad for the economy. 📉 We should be building bonds with other countries, tearing down trade barriers and walls, bringing the globe together not splitting it apart. 🌐 Ignoring our global problems aren’t going to make them go away.

Looking ahead, Fathers Day 👨 is a month away, Summer ️⛱️ is in 5 weeks, Independence Day 🇺🇸 is in 7 weeks, Last Sunset After 8:30 PM 🌆 is in 2 months, August 🌻 is in 11 weeks and Last Sunset After 7 PM 🌆 is in 20 weeks.

Good morning! What day is it? Save the Pine Bush Dinner Day, of course. Adam’s lasagna is pretty darn good. Reszin used to make good lasagna but she’s be promoted to greeter now that she’s well into her nineties. It’s a shit ton of cooking. Three weeks to 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️. Partly cloudy and 44 degrees ⛅ There is a northwest breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. It’s hard to complain about the sunshine after all rain, it will be nice when I get in the office to enjoy just the natural sunlight. Maybe more rain on Friday but it seems like the cold and wet pattern is coming to a conclusion for at least a while.

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 61 degrees at 5pm. Eight degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 22nd. Northwest wind 7 to 10 mph. At that will help dry out the mud a little bit. I think it was a good year to buy those farm boots. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became partly cloudy by afternoon. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 77 degrees. The record high of 93 was set in 1900.

Looking up at the clouds as they pass the bus 🚍 heading downtown I’m dreaming of laying out at the beach or swimming 🏊 pool watching the clouds float above. Mine Kill State Park is always a lot of fun mid summer, especially if combined with other activities including fishing and camping. What a day for a day dream, singing 🎶 the Loving Spoonful record. Summer will be here before you know it. Its kind of amazing that it’s mid May and we have yet to have a real hot and humid day. But I think the weather pattern is changing.

The sun will set at 8:11 pm with dusk around 8:43 pm, which is one minute and 3 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly cloudy ⛅ conditions and temperatures around 57 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 38 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 4 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 49 degrees at 4am. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 21st. Days have been cool lately but nights have been warm. Despite the rainy and cloudy weather keeping the high temperatures modest, when you look at the balance of day, it’s mostly been above average. Not as hot as last May but still pretty warm. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 51 degrees. The record low of 33 occurred back in 1980.

Tonight I’m getting the Pine Bush display to work on it. I’ve been told it’s kind of a mess but I’m hoping to get some new pictures 📷 which I can hopefully order online, get laminated and pick up on Friday night. The Lupine Festival should be fun or at least something that has to be done. 🎨

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ with dusk at 9:04 pm. On that day in 2018, we had partly sunny, rain showers and temperatures between 64 and 48 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 75 degrees. We hit a record high of 97 back in 1925.

Good morning! Monday’s come back around again. Two weeks to Memorial Day 🇺🇸. Despite the cold and wet spring, making farmers and everybody else life miserable summer is coming. Cloudy, damp and 44 degrees in the land of the Delmaritian. ☁ There is a east-southeast breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. Rain this afternoon once again, I hope you brought your umbrella ☔. Maybe it’s an exaggeration but it sure feels like the sun ain’t going to shine again. The skies will clear Wednesday around 1 pm.

This morning I feel sick as a dog 🐶 but it’s off to work. Headache, body aches and a bit of a sore throat. But I’ve had this on and off for weeks now. I’m thinking it’s mold exposure from all the rain we’ve had lately in my shitty apartment and that and I hate Mondays. Hopefully this won’t last for long. It’s come and gone every week.

But I shouldn’t hate this week too much as tomorrow is a pay day, the first or second of the month depending on how you look at the calendar. 💵 One week closer to a better tomorrow. I expect a busy day and I’m hoping to get out of work at a reasonable hour, so hopefully the day will go by quickly. No plans for the weekend yet, but I do have to prepare for the Lupine Festival and the Save the Pine Bush booth 🦋 on Saturday. The following weekend is Memorial Day Weekend.

Today will rain, mainly after 1pm. 🌧 High of 50 degrees at 1pm. 19 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 29th. East wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 68 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 2004. There was a dusting of snow in 1953.❄

The sun will set at 8:09 pm with dusk around 8:41 pm, which is one minute and 4 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 46 degrees. There will be a east breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 34 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 9 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain. 🌧 Low of 40 degrees at 6am. Six degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 24th. North wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 54 degrees. The record low of 30 occurred back in 1996.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Memorial Day 🇺🇸 when the sun will be setting at 8:22 pm with dusk at 8:56 pm. On that day in 2018, we had rain showers, partly sunny and temperatures between 68 and 54 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 73 degrees. We hit a record high of 94 back in 1914.

It looks like the weather forecast is improving for the long range. ☀ It might be a hot and dry start to June. I’m hoping for nice weather for Memorial Day Weekend but who knows at this point. At some point the weather will change. But regardless I expect a shit ton of black flies.🐜 At least they aren’t bad after dark. And they weren’t biting that much this weekend that was.

While I didn’t get to Moss Island this past weekend, I will probably head over to there sometime in June, 🌼 as part of a trip to Piseco-Powley Road and the potholers. When I do that, I’ll probably also get a bite to eat for dinner at Green Acres drive-in and maybe hike a little bit of the Erie Canal Trail. Might be warm enough to kayak a bit in the Mohawk River too. Not totally sure which week though in June, because I also want to get up to Speculator and do some hiking and camping up along Perkins Clearing Road where I went on Labor Day Weekend last year.🚶🏕

Almost to work… Time to end this blog post. Have a great day!

Good evening! Yup, still raining and 43 degrees ☔ in Delmar. Talk about a cold wet ending to the weekend.

But it was a nice weekend especially on Saturday up at Hildervandt Vly and the wilderness back country of the Southern Adirondacks. I’m thinking of doing more day hikes like that and some overnights when it warms up a bit more and the black fly season is done. A nice starry night in the wilderness in the hammock would be wonderful. ⛺

While it was interesting driving through Tribes Hill and Fort Hunter, the bridge 🌉 between the two is pretty narrow when two pickup trucks have to pass on it. Then I managed to make the wrong turn in Schenectady County and ended up in Mariaville and ended up taking the Thruway back home. At least traffic was light and the more rural parts of Schenectady County is remarkably scenic.

Sunday dinner at the folks house, Mother’s Day was meatballs riggis which was pretty good. 🍲 Always a fun ending to the weekend.

Tonight will have patchy drizzle with a slight chance of showers after 2am. When it’s not raining look for clouds 🌧, with a low of 40 degrees at 6am. Six degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 24th. Light northeast wind. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 48 degrees. The record low of 30 occurred back in 2005.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous Moon 🌔 with 73% illuminated. The moon will set at 3:03 am. The Flower Moon 🌕 is on Friday night with a chance of showers. The sun will rise at 5:35 am with the first light at 5:03 am, which is one minute and 6 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 9 hours and 26 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 9 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have patchy drizzle with a chance of showers before 11am, then rain likely, mainly after 2pm. Cloudy 🌦, with a high of 55 degrees at 2pm. 14 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 9th. East wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 68 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 2004. There was a dusting of snow in 1953.❄

I was a bit annoyed with the amount of litter 🚮 I saw in the woods over the weekend. You usually don’t see as much in more remote country as I saw up at the campsites at Stewart Landing and Rockwood Lake. Hiking along NY 8 was pretty bad too. I didn’t pick up everything I saw in Rockwood State Forest but I did pick up the multiple six pack rings that were along the road. I get it – not really the consumers fault but a society awash in oil and the byproducts of it – plastic but still how hard would have it been to at least burn it completely or pack it out?

The long range doesn’t look that great for next weekend but the Lupine Festival might be fun. 😞 Next Saturday, a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 69. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 51 at 1pm. Next Sunday, a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 69. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 54 at 1pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 70 degrees. At least by then the temperature will return close to normal.

In four weeks on June 9 the sun will be setting at 8:32 pm,🌄 which is 24 minutes and 15 seconds later then tonight. Almost the latest sunset of the year only gain about five minutes on that. In 2018 on that day, we had mostly sunny, shallow fog and temperatures between 80 and 52 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 76 and 55 degrees. The record high of 100 degrees was set back in 1933.

Looking ahead, Fathers Day 👨 is in 5 weeks, National Nude Day 👱 is in 9 weeks (skinny dipping?), Last Sunset After 8 PM 🌆 is in 3 months, Sunset Before 7:30 PM 🌆 is in 16 weeks, Autumn 🍂 is in 19 weeks and Average High is 60 🍂 is in 22 weeks.